TAA DC-3
 

Hi, in 1964 TAA painted up one of their DC-3s into livery celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the first Air Mail in Australia. The aircraft was VH-AEQ a picture of which is available on the Aussie Airliners site.

There were a number of sponsors of the anniversary; Shell, Mildara Wines and John Mack Photographics of Adelaide. On the rear of the aircraft was a logo of some sort which is a red circle and what looks like a boomerang or something like it and lettering but on the photograph is too blurred to read.

Does anybody remember this and/or have any idea of what the logo might be?

I have a good quality colour slide of that aircraft. The insignia you describe is a red Kangaroo on a boomerang. On the boomerang, it says ' Kings Tours' in white letters and underneath '25' (in red) 'Years of Travel' (in white) below on the surrounding red ring..

Amos thank you very much. Is there any chance you could post a copy here?

Here you go.

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...psfkkgna4j.jpg
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...psqp8fu6gb.jpg

Amos, thank you very much it solved a mystery. The gentleman concerned is very grateful and so am I.

If your wondering, since retiring from life in aviation I indulge my fascination with flight and historical aircraft through computerised flight simulation. Even though the medium is limited by a PC screen, the back office algorithims and state of modern programming, especially graphics has meant that it is no longer a poor replication but with internet connections you can have real time weather downloaded, third party ATC control and do training on the same aircraft even though one person is in one country and one in another. Ysome of the cad-cam programming/graphics etc means you can have a fully synthetic functioning virtual cockpit etc that mimics the real thing to an amazing degree. I am a DC-3 tragic so to get an accurate paint job on the latest DC-3/C-47 just makes it all the better.

Unlike the real life simulators (torture chambers) at least I can turn it off when I get bored and go outside.

Cheers and thanks

Colonel Pyke or Bill King's Northern Beach Safaris ?
 

Could the logo be the Pyke family or Bill King's Northern Beach Safaris?
AATKings has a similar logo to King's Tours (well, with some license, I can see an inverted boomerang) and a bit of history points that way.

In the 80s and 90s I found King's bus map, "Kings or AATKings Touring Map of Australia" IIRCC, to be a great adjunct for navigating when flying around this big country. And my passengers loved it :ok:

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